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Broug-ht forward. . . . 

 Saturday, September llth, 1830. 



Met at Over Corapton Lodg'e Gate ; — finding- a 

 litter close to the Mansion House, and in one hour and 

 ten minutes, killing a fine young* dog- Fox ; the tail 



Hounds having- killed another 



Tuesday, September 14th. 



Met at Compton Castle at eight A. M. ; finding 



a litter of Foxes, and after two hours and ten minutes 

 steady and g-ood running-, we got away with a young 

 dog Fox, after a short burst killing him on the Earth 

 at Sigwell, near Charlton Down. It being a bright 

 and hot day the Hounds were taken home 



Saturday, September 18th. 



The Hounds met on this day at Mudford Bridge at 

 eight o'clock ; — finding a litter of Foxes at Ashington 

 Wood, killing one in Cover ; when we were hallooed 

 away to the old Fox, which we ran for two hours in 

 a HEAVY RA.IN and with a catching scent towards 

 Brimpton, and nearly to Over Compton, where the 

 Hounds got vpon the heel of another Fox (that had 

 gone away, whilst we were killing our first Fox in that 

 direction) and were stopped 



Tuesday, September 21st. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met on this day at 

 Stourton Inn, at e'ght o'clock, and were thrown into 



Deverell Longwood at twenty-five minutes after nine; 



finding immediately an old dog Fox, which the Hounds 

 caught a vieic of as he was crossing the common field; 

 climbing the down close to his brush, and racing him 

 across the open Mere Doivns at the top of their speed 

 in the finest style imaginable, turning him from his 

 point towards the water meadows, that lie near Bidcombe 

 Down, which he tried to reach, but the Pack close at his 

 heels, and occasionally in view of him, turned him 



Carried forward .... 



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